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Category Archives: Fiction
Shades of Black Mischief
A recent “Wild Life” column by Aidan Hartley in the Spectator describes how the new British High Commissioner to Kenya has snubbed the few white farmers who remain in that country: I realised I had fallen from grace when we … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Newspapers
Tagged Aidan Hartley, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Kenya, Spectator
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Waugh and the Rolling Stones
In the Washington Free Beacon, columnist Matthew Walter reviews the Rolling Stones’ latest album Blue and Lonesome. The review is not favorable. After comparing the new album to the earlier works of the Stones and others, he gets around to … Continue reading
Waugh Cited in Book on Alcohol in Literature
The Guardian has published an essay which appears to be based on a book about the role played by alcohol in 20th Century history. This is by Henry Jeffreys and is entitled Empire of Booze: British History Through the Bottom of a Glass.” See earlier … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Alcohol in Literature, Henry Jeffreys, Wine Connoisseurship
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Weekly Standard Remembers Waugh
The latest issue of Weekly Standard carries an article memorializing Waugh in this 50th anniversary year of his death. This is by Algis Valiunas who is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The essay begins with the familiar characterization … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Algis Valiunas, Weekly Standard
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Evelyn Waugh and “The Waste Land”
The Guardian has named T S Eliot’s “The Waste Land” as its latest selection in its 100 best non-fiction books. See earlier post. Once again Evelyn Waugh is mentioned in connection with the selection: The Great War was a mass slaughter. … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Guardian, T S Eliot, The Waste Land. Robert McCrum
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Waugh in the News (more)
The author (Pedro Mexia) of the Portuguese language article about Evelyn Waugh in the weekly Lisbon newspaper Expresso has kindly sent us a complete copy of the article. See earlier post for the opening paragraph. Here is an edited Google translation of … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Expresso, Frances Donaldson, Ian Littlewood, Pedro Mexia
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British Council Promotes Waugh in Diversity Week
The British Council in India is celebrating diversity week and is promoting the works of British writers from the LGBT community who it deems to represent diverse views. Evelyn Waugh is the first writer mentioned: Waugh explored his homosexuality both … Continue reading
Posted in Audiobooks, Decline and Fall, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged British Council, Diversity Week, LGBT Community
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Waugh in the News
Evelyn Waugh is cited or quoted in several recent newspaper articles: In the Guardian, columnist Ian Jack has written a story in which he muses about the possibility that the Oxford-Cambridge rail line may be revived under a recent government … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged Expresso (Lisbon), Guardian, New York Times, NYRB, The Inquirer (Philippines)
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Evelyn Waugh: Equal Opportunity Racist
The conservative website Heat Street has published an article by UK journalist Constance Watson defending Waugh’s 1932 novel Black Mischief against charges frequently leveled at it for its racist remarks, citing several from Twitter as examples. As she points out, the book … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Black Mischief, Twitter, Waugh Family
Tagged Constance Watson, Heat Street
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The Loved One Declared Favorite Novella
Hatchards book shop on Piccadilly has declared Waugh’s The Loved One to be its favorite novella: Over the last eight months Hatchards has run a campaign to discover which novella of the last 200 years is our customers favourite. We are … Continue reading
Posted in The Loved One
Tagged Hatchards, Novella
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